Watching - From Notebook - 3.5.08
Waiting. Watching. Sitting. Seeing. Looking at everyone and observing. Finding the flaws in people and their habits. Feeling remorse and sorrow for all the foul things I see.
Adultery, pride, religion and scorn. A girl cheats on her boyfriend while he's away. She never tells him. I see people living in squalor and never escaping. i see children wearing dirty rags for clothes. Some don't have shoes. Babies are unnoticed because the mother is single and out drinking. She leaves quickly to put him to bed and comes back to keep gossiping. And drinks another drink.
Morality is dead in this town and in this world. I see my friends drink themselves brain dead and go home with strangers. They don't talk any more. She tells his girlfriend he still cares bout her, even though he can't find a reason to keep her with him. She's a fool anyway.
I watch people come and go, some are happy, some find their happiness through a needle in the arm. It's okay though, they'll hang themselves from a light pole one day. I watch these people trudging through the deep path of life, barely lifting their feet high enough for the next step. I wish I could show them what's wrong and why they'll never be happy. But they never listen to me. Most of them never will.
I hear the newsman talking about another homicide. People are like rats. I don't even fret anymore when I see our fellow men and women killing one another. No one cares when one rat drowns another. They just eat the other rat to survive. And they'll burn their home down to keep warm at night. But it's never warm, not in the dark holes they live in. They never see the light of day.
We're controlled by greed and by our selfish pride. I wish that money didn't exist and that we all contributed. But that won't happen. Popular culture and TV keep us lazy and selfish. It's easier to stay home and gorge yourself than to leave and help others. I watch people without jobs come and go, only to continue their sloth ways and only look forward to the next sex pack the rest of us pay for. And it makes me sick.
All we can do is hope for a better tomorrow.
Adultery, pride, religion and scorn. A girl cheats on her boyfriend while he's away. She never tells him. I see people living in squalor and never escaping. i see children wearing dirty rags for clothes. Some don't have shoes. Babies are unnoticed because the mother is single and out drinking. She leaves quickly to put him to bed and comes back to keep gossiping. And drinks another drink.
Morality is dead in this town and in this world. I see my friends drink themselves brain dead and go home with strangers. They don't talk any more. She tells his girlfriend he still cares bout her, even though he can't find a reason to keep her with him. She's a fool anyway.
I watch people come and go, some are happy, some find their happiness through a needle in the arm. It's okay though, they'll hang themselves from a light pole one day. I watch these people trudging through the deep path of life, barely lifting their feet high enough for the next step. I wish I could show them what's wrong and why they'll never be happy. But they never listen to me. Most of them never will.
I hear the newsman talking about another homicide. People are like rats. I don't even fret anymore when I see our fellow men and women killing one another. No one cares when one rat drowns another. They just eat the other rat to survive. And they'll burn their home down to keep warm at night. But it's never warm, not in the dark holes they live in. They never see the light of day.
We're controlled by greed and by our selfish pride. I wish that money didn't exist and that we all contributed. But that won't happen. Popular culture and TV keep us lazy and selfish. It's easier to stay home and gorge yourself than to leave and help others. I watch people without jobs come and go, only to continue their sloth ways and only look forward to the next sex pack the rest of us pay for. And it makes me sick.
All we can do is hope for a better tomorrow.